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Convention. 


Results of the Convention. 


The Plans and Purposes 


OF THE 

ST. LOUIS SOCIETY. 



ST. LOUIS. 

Times Printing House, 5tli and Chestnut Sts. 

1880. 














Office ST, LOUIS IMMIGRATION SOCIETY, 

ST. LOUIS, MAY 19, 1880. 

To the Members of the State. Immigration Convention : 

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Gentlemen. —The State Immigration Convention has met and adjourned► 
In itself the Convention was a success—successful beyond the most san¬ 
guine expectations of its originators. It was the largest body of represen¬ 
tative Missourians ever assembled. They came from every section, from 
every county of the State, to make known and publish to the world the 
advantages of their respective localities. 

They came to prove that, whatever may have been true of Missouri in times 
gone by, her people now extend the hand of fellowship, and will give a lieart3 r r 
whole-souled welcome to all who wish to cast their lot among them, and 
cordially invite foreign capital and labor to come to their State and aid in the 
development of its wonderful resources. 

All this the Convention has done. It has shown that our own people now 
fully realize the importance of encouraging immigration, and that a laudable 
spirit of emulation has been aroused in tlie different sections, each striving to 
outdo the others in efforts to add to the population and wealth of the State. 
It has demonstrated that, however laggard Missouri may have been in the 
past, she will, in the future, keep step with the progress of the age. With one 
accord her whole people have risen up and come together to prove how much 
they and their State have been misrepresented and misunderstood, and to 
repel slanders which have turned the tide of immigration from this grand 
commonwealth to other less favored States. They have shown that the 
heritage which God has given them is unequaled in its munificence, and they 
have given assurance, which cannot be doubted, that they are not only willing 
but anxious that the people of other climes should come to enjoy that heritage 
with them. 

The object and purpose of the Convention and its extraordinary compo¬ 
sition have been widely published, and have been the subject of conversation 
and newspaper comment, not alone in all parts of our own country, but in 
those countries in Europe from which the stream of emigration flows. 

Missouri has but to be known, and the true spirit of her people understood, to 

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insure an increase of population and wealth unparalleled in history, and by 
this movement the State has been advertised as it mver was before. 


Address to the State Immigration Convention. 


Should our efforts stop here, the result would probably be as favorable and 
important to the State as anything that has been heretofore done for it. 

But our work is not half done. The proceedings of the Convention were 
interesting, and might, perhaps, have been made more so to those present by 
giving free rein to personal discussion and debate. The Convention however 
was not called for the mere entertainment of its members, but for the enlighten¬ 
ment of the public, at home and abroad. The object was to collect facts and 
useful statistical information in regard to the State, which we could, with 
pride, submit to the whole world. This object was fully attained. More than 
fifty distinguished citizens and experts prepared and presented to the Con¬ 
vention elaborate and exhaustive articles on almost every subject material to 
the interests of the State. In addition, the several counties, through their 
delegates, presented reports giving detailed descriptions of their respective 
counties. In these we have an acquisition simply invaluable. They present 
an array of facts, and show agricultural, mineral and manufacturing capa¬ 
bilities that will astonish our own best informed citizens. 

We are now engaged in compiling these very valuable papers, and shall 
publish them in the most attractive form. We hope and expect to produce a 
work that will be as much superior to any similar production published by 
any other State as our materials are better. A description of each county of 
the State, setting forth every fact on which one in search of a home for any 
purpose would desire information, will be published, with a carefully prepared 
map of the county. 

The preparation of this work has been intrusted to our secretary, E. C. 
Cabell, and his assistant, Morrison Rensliaw, under the general supervision of 
our committee on publication, Thos. W. Fitch, Waldo P. Johnson, Thos. C. 
Fletcher, Clias. P. Johnson, Richard D. Lancaster and E. C. Cabell. 

Much time must necessarily elapse before such a work, worthy of the 
subject and satisfactory to ourselves, can be completed. But this delay will 
not be without some compensating advantage. r J he taking of the United 
States census is now in progress, and we shall be able to avail ourselves of 
advanced information from this source to give the latest anti most correct 
report of the resources of the State. 

This work, completed in the manner and in the style we propose, will be 
perhaps of greater practical importance to the State than any heretofore 
published. We shall spare no pains to make it valuable and attractive, and 
shall take measures to insure for it a wide circulation. 

hi concluding, we beg you to pardon a brief reference to ourselves. The 
Executive Committee of the St. Louis Immigration Society, having immediate 
charge of the affairs of the association, are all citizens of St. Louis. None of 


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Address to the State Immigration Convention. 


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us have any purpose to subserve except the promotion of the public good. 
There is among us no element of political party bias, and this was carefully 
excluded from the convention. But while we are citizens of St. Louis, the 
movement we inaugurated was for the special and immediate benefit of the State 
at large. We felt that the growth and prosperity of our city depended on the 
prosperity of the country tributary to it, and particularly of our own State. 
To mcrease the population, to build up interior cities and towns, to promote 
local manufacturing enterprises, to open the mines, and otherwise to develop 
the country, will be to build up St. Louis. We are therefore greatly inter¬ 
ested in the material advancement of every county in the State. If the coun¬ 
ties grow rich and prosper, so will our city increase in wealth and prosperity. 
Between town and country there is no conflict of interest. One is dependent 
on the other. Without the country our city would not be, and every farmer 
in the State is interested in the growth of St. Louis. It is destined to become 
the great commercial capital of the Mississippi Valley, and perhaps the largest 
city in the world. It is, or will be, the market and distributing point for all the 
surrounding country. But this can only be through the prosperity of the 
country around it, and hence our efforts to add to the population and in every 
way to secure the development of the resources of the counties. That insured. 
the grandest predictions of the future of St. Louis will be realized. 

We congratulate you on the success which has thus far attended this move¬ 
ment. That success justifies the hope that, by earnest, persistent, united 
effort, we may “place Missouri where she should be—first in rank among the 
States of the Western Empire.” 


Thomas W. Fitcii, 
Charles P. Johnson 
R. D. Lancaster, 
Waldo P. Johnson, 


Thomas Richeson, 
Henry C. Yaeger. 
Web. M. Samuel, 
A. W. Soper. 

E. C. Cabell. 


Charles E. Slayback 
Enno Sander, 
Norman J. Colman, 
Thomas C. Fletcher. 




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